I am your dog and I have something I'd like to whisper in your ear.
I
know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have
children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and there,
often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in
life. Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the
way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now.
That comes with age. The gray hairs are beginning to ring my muzzle. You
smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? So you
see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in the
world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing
for just a simple moment of your time.
That is all I ask.
To
slow down, if even for a few minutes to be with me. So many times you
have been saddened by the words you read on the screen, of others of my
kind passing. Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so
suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your throat. Sometimes, we age so
slowly before your eyes that you may not even seem to know until the
very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded
eyes.
Still, the love
is always there even when we must take that long sleep, to run free in a
distant land. I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week.
Someday you will shed the water from your eyes that humans have when
deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself that you
did not have just "one more day" with me. Because I love you so, your
sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have NOW, together. So come
sit down here next to me on the floor and look deep into my eyes. What
do you see?
If
you look hard and deep enough we will talk, you & I, heart to
heart. Come to me not as "alpha" or "trainer" or even "Mom" or "Dad",
come to me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into
one anothers eyes, and talk. I may tell you something about the fun of
chasing a tennis ball or I may tell you something profound about myself
or even life in general.
You
have decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul to share
such things with. Someone very different from you and here I am. I am a
Dog and I am alive, I feel emotion, I feel physical senses and I can
revel in the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not think of you
as a "Dog on two feet" - I know what you are. You are human, in all
your quirkiness and I love you still.
Now
come sit with me on the floor. Enter my world and let time slow down if
only for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes and whisper to my ears.
Speak your heart with your joy and I will know your true self. We may
not have tomorrow and life is oh so very short...
So please - - come sit with me now and let us share these precious moments we have together.
Author: Unknown
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